Francesco Dal Grande

This study presents the first chromosome-level genome assembly of the 400-year-old Goethe's Palm, providing insights into its TE landscape and miRNA annotation for conservation genomics.

The paper develops an AI model to predict successful genomic DNA sequencing from herbarium specimens using morphological, metadata, and DNA quantity features.

The paper examines gene content variation in lichenized fungi across elevation gradients, finding a linear decline in protein kinase gene abundance with elevation.

This study mines lichen-forming fungal genomes to identify novel biosynthetic genes, finding 43 potentially novel gene clusters encoding structurally and functionally unknown natural products.

The paper identifies the biosynthetic gene cluster for gyrophoric acid in lichen-forming fungi using long-read sequencing and bioinformatics.

The paper identifies transposable elements in the genome of a lichen-forming fungus and examines their distribution across elevation gradients in different climate zones.

This study identifies a gene cluster and FAS responsible for depside and depsidone biosynthesis in lichenized fungi through comparative genomics and metatranscriptomics.

The paper assembles the holo-genome of the lichen Umbilicaria pustulata using metagenomic data, revealing genome structures and abundance ratios of its symbiotic components.